Vblock System 740, which now includes 3X storage performance, 50% lower TCO and easier provisioning based on service level objectives. This system combines Cisco Unified Computing, Nexus ACI-ready networking, and EMC VMAX 3 storage.

The new Vblock System 540, an all-flash-based converged infrastructure system for consolidating mixed workloads such as private clouds, databases and business applications. The Vblock System 540 includes EMC's XtremIO all-flash arrays, Cisco Unified Computing and Nexus ACI-ready networking. It provides copy services for applications like SAP with many instances across multiple application landscapes, VCE says.

The new Vblock System 240 is a converged infrastructure system for midsized businesses and distributed remote offices. It is based on EMC's entry-level VNX5200 unified block and file storage system.

New software for Vblock system include VCE Integrated Solutions for Cloud Management. These are pre-integrated, tested and validated programs designed to simplify deployment and management of cloud computing.

VCE also rolled out what it calls technology extensions for EMC storage and Cisco UCS compute platforms. These are designed to enable additional capabilities and scalability for new and existing Vblock systems.

The VCE technology extension for EMC Isilon storage integrates this storage platform with a Vblock system to consolidate and manage enterprise data and applications. Vblock systems can now be expanded to incorporate large-scale user data for virtual desktop infrastructure, enterprise data lakes for Big Data and Hadoop data analytics, and scale-out NAS, VCE says.

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